Movers 2.0

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I found this website, Movers 2.0, on a list of interesting websites on blogspot.com. This site shows how websites compare to others by tracking both the daily pageviews and daily reach. This site, however, deals only with websites on "Web 2.0", which are websites sites that anyone can edit with more of a personal touch, like a blog or social networking site. These sites allow you to enter information about yourself, whether by describing yourself directly or by how you write, both in your topics and writing style. These "Web 2.0" sites are the sites that we have primarily been studying and discussing, so I thought this an especially appropriate site to discuss with this blog post.

Movers 2.0 displays the ranks of these Web 2.0 sites, determined by daily viewings of each website and the total reach of the website, which is the number of users registered on the website. There are graphs to display each for every website, updated every day. Movers 2.0 uses the total number to determine both of these graphs, as opposed to other rankings that use percentage of all web users. I thought that it was really interesting that the numbers used were listed in the thousands but described as being in millions, so the daily views for websites like YouTube and Facebook are receiving billions of hits a day, with YouTube receiving nearly 20 billion hits daily. Those numbers were just staggering to me, especially since I didn't know that many people even used the Internet, though I think that number counts individual page views, so each viewer will view several pages per actual visit to the site. YouTube, though, still has likely a billion different viewers per day, if each viewer sees on average 20 pages per visit, which could definitely be much higher than actual.

You can also see which sites are moving up and which sites are moving down, hence the name Movers. This shows which sites are increasing in page views and membership and which sites are decreasing. With this information, you can see that sites like Facebook are greatly increasing in site traffic while many others are losing viewers. Once you see this, you can go much more in depth and study why sites are gaining and losing viewers. Many conclusions can be gained from this, and many potential web site creators can benefit from this information and shape their web sites to be the most appealing and draw the most viewers.

I don't know that it is vitally important that everyone checks this site out daily, but I thought it was very interesting to see how millions of people are spending their time on the Internet, or at least on the Web 2.0 sites.